Mysteries of Motion
“Consider how. Not literally alone, he has a power beyond most people’s to step outside the vehicle of himself. In those rare seizures, with the eyes of his mind rolled upward, he has savored super-cool moments at that vehicle’s edge. Moving along out here, goggled and visored in the center of a filmy octopus of other lenses, at times he has to quell an impulse to shed all this gear and float out in his nakedness for one moment’s purity against all the hedgings which keep a person alive from the... minute born. He sees his body snapped up by the cosmos, can feel the crumpling. But he has his second-rate sanity; he never will.
Downstairs he savors the danger of the work to come, hopes for it. In grammar school he had once immediately eaten a couple of stinging liqueur-chocolates which a malicious boy with a father in Intelligence had told him were “spy-savers,” for use when cornered. He had wanted that cornering; it was not to be. He still craves it. But the rhythm of fearlessness, which one can neither fake nor avoid, takes care of him—and does his work.MoreLess
Downstairs he savors the danger of the work to come, hopes for it. In grammar school he had once immediately eaten a couple of stinging liqueur-chocolates which a malicious boy with a father in Intelligence had told him were “spy-savers,” for use when cornered. He had wanted that cornering; it was not to be. He still craves it. But the rhythm of fearlessness, which one can neither fake nor avoid, takes care of him—and does his work.MoreLess
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